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Discover the HOSFAIR, the Guangzhou International Hospitality Supplies Fair
The 15th Guangzhou International Hospitality Supplies Fair (HOSFAIR Guangzhou 2017) will be held on 8-10th, September, the Zone A of the Canton Fair Complex, China. Its scope includes: Kitchen equipment, Hotel furniture, Hotel textile, Guest room & Lobby supplies, Clean & Laundry, Intelligence & Entertainment, Tableware & Accessories, Food & Beverage, Restaurant chain as well as Hotel design. In the past few years, we were attracted exhibitors and purchasers from at home and abroad such as Fabbri, U-Star, Imperial Palace Hotel and so on.
The Guangzhou International Hospitality Supplies Fair (HOSFAIR)
Why it’s interesting to participate to your exhibition for an European?
This year, Food Hospitality World China 2017 which is organized by Fiera Milano, will be held concurrently with HOSFAIR. Besides, we also prepare a series of theme activities. For example, HOSFAIR Cocktail Master Cup, Guangzhou International Coffee Cup Competition, CCL Cup Brewers Cup Championship, etc. We also provide Business Matching. HOSFAIR Business Matching is a customized suite of integrated matching services dedicated to helping global customers identify and screen potential China business partners. This service draws on the HOSFAIR’s database that has been accumulated for more than 30 years of experience matching China and overseas companies.
What are the stakes for you today in the hotel industry and especially in China?
According to the prediction of World Tourism Organization, by 2020, China will become the largest tourist destination and the fourth largest export country of tourists’ origin. Meanwhile, China is making greater and greater contribution to the world’s tourism, which makes Chinese market is getting more and more attention from the hotel industry. In addition, thanks to the policy of “the Belt and Road” and “ Supply side structural reforms”, hotel supplies industry is meeting new development opportunities.
The Guangzhou International Hospitality Supplies Fair (HOSFAIR 2017)
What are the main innovations that have marked the hotel industry in recent months? Can you give us some examples?
In my opinion, the transformation from traditional sense of hotel management to customer management as well as the show up of intelligence hospitality equipment might be the main innovations.
China hotel industry is facing the dual pressures of online and offline. More and more customer chooses to use searching engine to find out a high performance cost ratio hotel by comparing the user feedback, service attitude and so on.
In the world of services, attractive user interfaces are typically appropriate. So, it’s undoubtedly the best way that making efforts to raise the intelligent level of the hotel to provide various personalized information services.
and What’s the biggest challenge in the luxury hotel business today? In the China luxury hotel market, its first task is to cultivate the local high-end consumer groups. A great deal of luxury hotel business is relying on the outsider to promote its economic development.
Laurent Delporte, an editor and conference speaker, is a strategic expert in the sector of hotels. A visionary, he brings his unique look on hotels in service to the decision-makers in the industry, whether to enhance the development of new projects or strategic visions.
Laurent has visited and audited over 350 hotels across the world and also participates in mystery visits to provide quality control for the world’s finest hotels.
